lobster

A workflow runner for combining several steps into one repeatable process, with approval checkpoints before sensitive actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for tasks such as triaging email, monitoring a pull request, syncing information, or running scheduled workflows that may require approval.
Why use it?
It reduces manual coordination in multi-step tasks while keeping a person in control of actions such as sending, posting, or deleting.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/apiliumcode/mayros/lobster
Any agent
npx skills add ApiliumCode/mayros --skill lobster
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ApiliumCode/mayros

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 605 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00605
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00302
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00121
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00060

Measured 2d ago against content hash fd4f59008e2a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

lobster scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 5 executable files (index.ts, src/lobster-tool.test.ts, src/lobster-tool.ts, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to lobster — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

extensions/lobster/SKILL.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lobster

Lobster executes multi-step workflows with approval checkpoints. Use it when:

  • User wants a repeatable automation (triage, monitor, sync)
  • Actions need human approval before executing (send, post, delete)
  • Multiple tool calls should run as one deterministic operation

When to use Lobster

User intent Use Lobster?
"Triage my email" Yes — multi-step, may send replies
"Send a message" No — single action, use message tool directly
"Check my email every morning and ask before replying" Yes — scheduled workflow with approval
"What's the weather?" No — simple query
"Monitor this PR and notify me of changes" Yes — stateful, recurring

Basic usage

Run a pipeline

{
  "action": "run",
  "pipeline": "gog.gmail.search --query 'newer_than:1d' --max 20 | email.triage"
}

Returns structured result:

{
  "protocolVersion": 1,
  "ok": true,
  "status": "ok",
  "output": [{ "summary": {...}, "items": [...] }],
  "requiresApproval": null
}

Handle approval

If the workflow needs approval:

{
  "status": "needs_approval",
  "output": [],
  "requiresApproval": {
    "prompt": "Send 3 draft replies?",
    "items": [...],
    "resumeToken": "..."
  }
}

Present the prompt to the user. If they approve:

{
  "action": "resume",
  "token": "<resumeToken>",
  "approve": true
}

Example workflows

Email triage

gog.gmail.search --query 'newer_than:1d' --max 20 | email.triage

Fetches recent emails, classifies into buckets (needs_reply, needs_action, fyi).

Email triage with approval gate

gog.gmail.search --query 'newer_than:1d' | email.triage | approve --prompt 'Process these?'

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 98 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fd4f59008e2a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

lobster is a skill published in the GitHub repository ApiliumCode/mayros (12 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 605 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to lobster, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.